Search Results - "Nesting Behavior"

Sensory pollutants alter bird phenology and fitness across a continent by Senzaki, Masayuki, Barber, Jesse R., Phillips, Jennifer N., Carter, Neil H., Cooper, Caren B., Ditmer, Mark A., Fristrup, Kurt M., McClure, Christopher J. W., Mennitt, Daniel J., Tyrrell, Luke P., Vukomanovic, Jelena, Wilson, Ashley A., Francis, Clinton D.

“…Expansion of anthropogenic noise and night lighting across our planet 1 , 2 is of increasing conservation concern 3 – 6 . Despite growing knowledge of…”
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The genetic basis of parental care evolution in monogamous mice by Bendesky, Andres, Kwon, Young-Mi, Lassance, Jean-Marc, Lewarch, Caitlin L., Yao, Shenqin, Peterson, Brant K., He, Meng Xiao, Dulac, Catherine, Hoekstra, Hopi E.

“…Parental care is essential for the survival of mammals, yet the mechanisms underlying its evolution remain largely unknown. Here we show that two sister…”
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Neonicotinoid exposure disrupts bumblebee nest behavior, social networks, and thermoregulation by Crall, James D, Switzer, Callin M, Oppenheimer, Robert L, Ford Versypt, Ashlee N, Dey, Biswadip, Brown, Andrea, Eyster, Mackay, Guérin, Claire, Pierce, Naomi E, Combes, Stacey A, de Bivort, Benjamin L

“…Neonicotinoid pesticides can negatively affect bee colonies, but the behavioral mechanisms by which these compounds impair colony growth remain unclear. Here,…”
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Notes on the use of 'bee hotels' by stem-nesting Hymenoptera in three County Dublin orchards by Hodge, Simon, Maher, Stephanie, Stout, Jane C

“…To investigate the nesting behaviour of stem-nesting bees and wasps, homemade "bee hotels containing cardboard nest tubes were placed out from March to…”
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Corticosterone shortens foreign egg ejection distance but not latency in American robins (Turdus migratorius) by Turner, Abbigail M., Sluis, Victoria N., Ward, Michael P., Hauber, Mark E.

“…Obligate brood parasitic birds often face the removal of their eggs by rejector hosts; for example, in North America, American robins (Turdus migratorius) are…”
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Presence and potential impact of anthropogenic nesting materials on a colonial breeding waterbird by Ferreira, Hugo R.S., Hadden, Ana C., Champagnon, Jocelyn, Lok, Tamar, Vittecoq, Marion, Alves, José A.

“…Despite the vital importance of wetlands globally, these habitats have increasingly received anthropogenic materials, such as plastics, which can impact the…”
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Influence of Nesting Characteristics on Health of Wild Bee Communities by Harmon-Threatt, Alexandra

“…Nest site availability and quality are important for maintaining robust populations and communities of wild bees. However, for most species, nesting traits and…”
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Climate change and nesting behaviour in vertebrates: a review of the ecological threats and potential for adaptive responses by Mainwaring, Mark C., Barber, Iain, Deeming, Denis C., Pike, David A., Roznik, Elizabeth A., Hartley, Ian R.

“…ABSTRACT Nest building is a taxonomically widespread and diverse trait that allows animals to alter local environments to create optimal conditions for…”
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Sleep and nesting behavior in primates: A review by Fruth, Barbara, Tagg, Nikki, Stewart, Fiona

“…Sleep is a universal behavior in vertebrate and invertebrate animals, suggesting it originated in the very first life forms. Given the vital function of sleep,…”
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Reproductive steroids as potential mediators of parental-reproductive trade-offs in a brood parasitic species by Lynch, Kathleen S, Henson, Elisha

“…Avian brood parasites display enhanced annual fecundity compared with other passerine birds. Female brood parasitic brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater) lay…”
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Eviction-driven infanticide and sexually selected adoption and infanticide in a neotropical parrot by Beissinger, Steven R, Berg, Karl S

“…Infanticide and adoption have been attributed to sexual selection, where an individual later reproduces with the parent whose offspring it killed or adopted…”
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Altruistic self-removal of health-compromised honey bee workers from their hive by RUEPPELL, O, HAYWORTH, M.K, ROSS, N.P

“…Social insect colonies represent distinct units of selection. Most individuals evolve by kin selection and forgo individual reproduction. Instead, they display…”
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Dynamic shoreline alterations and their impacts on Olive Ridley Turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) nesting sites in Gahirmatha Marine Wildlife Sanctuary, Odisha (India) by Mishra, Manoranjan, Pati, Saswati, Paul, Suman, Gonçalves, Rodrigo Mikosz, Acharyya, Tamoghna, Tripathy, Basudev, Silva, Richarde Marques da, Guria, Rajkumar, Santos, Celso Augusto Guimarães

“…Currently, sea turtle habitats are being altered by climate change and human activities, with habitat loss posing an urgent threat to Indian sea turtles. Thus,…”
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Environmental Warming and Feminization of One of the Largest Sea Turtle Populations in the World by Jensen, Michael P, Allen, Camryn D, Eguchi, Tomoharu, Bell, Ian P, LaCasella, Erin L, Hilton, William A, Hof, Christine A M, Dutton, Peter H

“…Climate change affects species and ecosystems around the globe [1]. The impacts of rising temperature are particularly pertinent in species with…”
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Predatory behavior, nesting habits, and impacts on honey bees (Apis mellifera) of an invasive hornet (Vespa tropica) on the island of Guam by Rosario, Christopher A., Otis, Gard W., Miller, Ross H., Groover-Landis, Arianna A., Stanley, Ella S., Mattila, Heather R.

“…Hornets (genus Vespa ) are a conspicuous taxon of large eusocial wasps that are predators of other insects. Increasingly, hornets are gaining notoriety as…”
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Transneuronal Propagation of Pathologic α-Synuclein from the Gut to the Brain Models Parkinson's Disease by Kim, Sangjune, Kwon, Seung-Hwan, Kam, Tae-In, Panicker, Nikhil, Karuppagounder, Senthilkumar S, Lee, Saebom, Lee, Jun Hee, Kim, Wonjoong Richard, Kook, Minjee, Foss, Catherine A, Shen, Chentian, Lee, Hojae, Kulkarni, Subhash, Pasricha, Pankaj J, Lee, Gabsang, Pomper, Martin G, Dawson, Valina L, Dawson, Ted M, Ko, Han Seok

“…Analysis of human pathology led Braak to postulate that α-synuclein (α-syn) pathology could spread from the gut to brain via the vagus nerve. Here, we test…”
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Presence-absence surveys yield spatially imprecise information about nesting sites of an endangered, forest-nesting seabird by Valente, Jonathon J., Adrean, Lindsay J., Nelson, S. Kim, Betts, Matthew G., Roby, Daniel D., Rivers, James W.

“…Presence-absence surveys are frequently used to monitor populations of rare and elusive species. Such data may also be used as a proxy for breeding activity,…”
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Exploring the potential of nest archives for establishing long-term trends in local populations of an Arctic-nesting colonial sea duck by Álvarez-Manzaneda, Inmaculada, Rühland, Kathleen M., Campbell, Marlo, Duda, Matthew P., Mallory, Mark L., Clyde, Nik, Grant Gilchrist, H., Hargan, Kathryn E., Smol, John P.

“…Tracking changes in seabird populations from remote Arctic regions using traditional monitoring techniques is financially and logistically challenging, leading…”
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Phylogenomic Evidence Overturns Current Conceptions of Social Evolution in Wasps (Vespidae) by Piekarski, Patrick K, Carpenter, James M, Lemmon, Alan R, Moriarty Lemmon, Emily, Sharanowski, Barbara J

“…The hypothesis that eusociality originated once in Vespidae has shaped interpretation of social evolution for decades and has driven the supposition that…”
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Estimating nesting habitat characteristics for the Kentish plover (Anarhynchus alexandrinus) with the effect of substrate and vegetation using a Bayesian network approach by Lee, Dong-Yun, Lee, Ju-Hyun, Son, Jong-Ju, Oh, Seung-Jun, Sung, Ha-Cheol

“…Coastal habitats play an important role in the nesting ecology of shorebirds; however, these habitats are increasingly threatened by human activity and ongoing…”
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